49 points by haunter 6 hours ago | 3 comments
CBLT 4 hours ago
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-Discontinued

> This is a good but long overdue decision by AMD. RADV has long been more popular with gamers/enthusiasts on Linux than their own official driver. Thanks to Valve, Google, Red Hat, and others, RADV has evolved very nicely.

potwinkle 28 minutes ago
This is great news for RADV development, I'm hoping someday we can even use ROCm on the open source stack.
shmerl 4 hours ago
What will AMD do with Windows Vulkan driver, didn't they use amdvlk there? There was some radv on Windows experiment, it would be cool if AMD would use that.
trynumber9 3 hours ago
No, it was a third driver.

Per AMD

>Notably, AMD's closed-source Vulkan driver currently uses a different pipeline compiler, which is the major difference between AMD's open-source and closed-source Vulkan drivers.

shmerl 3 hours ago
Why are they using different compilers?